Serious Illness Communication Tool for Palliative Care Fellows: Development, Implementation, and Lessons Learned.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Learning expert communication skills is a core educational goal within palliative care training, yet there are few communication-based educational tools specifically designed for specialty-trained palliative care providers. Objective: To develop and implement a tool to facilitate effective learning of serious illness communication for hospice and palliative medicine fellows. Methods: A novel formative assessment tool was developed within the UCLA Palliative Care Fellowship program, and utilized throughout the academic year on a weekly basis. Focus groups were held for fellows and faculty separately at the end of the academic year in order to gain insight into the experience and effectiveness of the tool. Focus group transcripts were analyzed through thema

SUBMITTER: Bell SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11894902 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature